tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37142409417862904342017-08-17T09:40:54.103-03:00The Elizabeth Bishop BlogJohn A. Barnsteadnoreply@blogger.comBlogger598125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-79623760576994479452017-08-17T09:39:00.003-03:002017-08-17T09:40:54.117-03:00New: A setting of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Shampoo”<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Recently, California writer and musician Charmane M. Vaianisi wrote to tell us of a collaboration with Oklahoma musician and composer Beau Mansfield: a setting of Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Shampoo.” They have posted a recording of this setting on YouTube. You can here it by clicking: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lc4hvM9eHY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lc4hvM9eHY</a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9_newbsi3j4/WZWN3r1-BlI/AAAAAAAACP4/nTD7asL5KncbazANh99ssDOgMwWALKMQACLcBGAs/s1600/index.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9_newbsi3j4/WZWN3r1-BlI/AAAAAAAACP4/nTD7asL5KncbazANh99ssDOgMwWALKMQACLcBGAs/s1600/index.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">You can <a href="https://charmanemvaianisi.bandcamp.com/">learn more about Charmane here</a>.</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">You can<a href="https://beaumansfield.bandcamp.com/"> learn more about Beau Mansfield here</a>.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Charmane has an incredible story, which you can <a href="http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Charmane-s-Journey.html?soid=1119051242453&amp;aid=JtU0E5ajrh4">read here</a>.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Charmane's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl3ML04UBlEio5g-bUBH33g">YouTube Channel</a>.</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-63379223334031508062017-08-10T07:37:00.003-03:002017-08-10T07:40:55.691-03:00Heritage Day Event in Great Village<div style="text-align: justify;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="https://img1.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /><style>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style><![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;">The Great Village Community Association organized a Heritage Day event which took place in the school gymnasium on 7 August 2017. Approximately 75 people attended to hear three guest speakers talk about three different periods of West Colchester’s history. 1. Garrett Gloade — early Mi’kmaw&nbsp;settlement of&nbsp;West Colchester and the Cobequid shore. 2. Bill Casey — the Acadian presence in Colchester and Cumberland counties. 3. Richard Akerman — Great Village’s&nbsp;role as the port of&nbsp;Londonderry during the boom period of&nbsp;the iron ore mines in that community. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Along with several other community groups, the EBSNS contributed a display, which was manned by April Sharpe, the summer student who is helping out at St. James Church. April kindly agreed to write a report for the blog, which follows:&nbsp;</span></div><div class="Default" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="Default" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; font-size: large;">“Heritage Day was full of history, including the Elizabeth Bishop Display table set up for all to see. Many people came to the table, drawn perhaps by the Elizabeth Bishop doll more than anything. There were people who had no idea who Elizabeth Bishop was, but many more knew of her. Both groups were happy to see the display, to further their knowledge of the famous poet. The pictures of her maternal family members drew the most attention. The Vassar yearbook, citing Great Village as her home and showing her in her youth, made many smile. The display featured publications by and about EB, photographs, and various projects the Society had undertaken including our centenary and roadside banners. EBSNS pencils and walking tour booklets were free for the taking. It was an all around success. "</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Apd6oBwdnYA/WYw2-hKHUwI/AAAAAAAACPo/4Iy2riR6w105HWnQViHygCoasvYxVFYxACLcBGAs/s1600/Heritage%2BDay%2B--%2BGreat%2BVillage%252C%2BN.S.%2B--%2B7%2BAugust%2B2017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="1152" height="225" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Apd6oBwdnYA/WYw2-hKHUwI/AAAAAAAACPo/4Iy2riR6w105HWnQViHygCoasvYxVFYxACLcBGAs/s400/Heritage%2BDay%2B--%2BGreat%2BVillage%252C%2BN.S.%2B--%2B7%2BAugust%2B2017.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="Default"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"></span></div><div class="Default" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; font-size: x-small;">(A glimpse of Heritage Day and the EBSNS display --</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; font-size: x-small;">our centenary and roadside banners are on the wall. Photo by Keith Pratt.)</span></b></div><div class="Default"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><br /></span></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-75005093066162393782017-07-20T10:38:00.003-03:002017-07-20T10:39:16.784-03:00Colchester Adult Learning Association’s new Little Free Library in Great Village<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Colchester Adult Learning Association (<a href="http://gocala.ca/">http://gocala.ca/</a>) recently installed a Little Free Library in Great Village, Nova Scotia. See their Facebook page for photos (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/gocala.ca/">https://www.facebook.com/gocala.ca/</a>). The library sits on the property of Wilson’s Fuel near the EBSNS/GVHS historical pergola. Wonderful to see reading being supported so enthusiastically and freely in the village. Congratulations CALA.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Little Free Library is a world-wide movement. Read more about it here: <a href="https://littlefreelibrary.org/">https://littlefreelibrary.org/</a>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-__uqjRSpXlo/WXCyIZN00TI/AAAAAAAACPE/WcHcRxjSmRkLo_hSo5ypsd2_5MgAm4ZvQCLcBGAs/s1600/CALA%2527s%2BLittle%2BFree%2BLibrary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-__uqjRSpXlo/WXCyIZN00TI/AAAAAAAACPE/WcHcRxjSmRkLo_hSo5ypsd2_5MgAm4ZvQCLcBGAs/s320/CALA%2527s%2BLittle%2BFree%2BLibrary.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">&nbsp;(The new Little Free Library waiting for its books,&nbsp;</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Great Village, N.S. Photo by Patti Sharpe.)</span></b></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-66375125941056030742017-07-15T08:58:00.001-03:002017-07-15T09:02:50.349-03:00Alfred Villeneuve’s first international exhibition<div style="text-align: justify;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="https://img1.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /><style>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style><![endif]--></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The EBSNS wishes to congratulate our long-time friend and supporter Alfred Villeneuve on his first international exhibition at The Scottish Arts Club (<a href="https://www.scottishartsclub.com/">https://www.scottishartsclub.com/</a>) in Edinburgh, Scotland, during the huge Edinburgh Festival Fringe (<a href="https://www.edfringe.com/">https://www.edfringe.com/</a>). His exhibit runs through August 2017.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">We are so pleased that Alfred’s amazing paintings will be showcased at this important venue, during this incredible gathering of international artists. We wish Alfred a wonderful trip. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yB7r-1ooHS8/WWoDBnzgnkI/AAAAAAAACOw/2Cif7efsX2oHDohvPJMaHJ41jfI-XeiJwCLcBGAs/s1600/Alfred%2BVilleneuve%2B--%2Bexhibit%2Bin%2BScotland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="1600" height="187" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yB7r-1ooHS8/WWoDBnzgnkI/AAAAAAAACOw/2Cif7efsX2oHDohvPJMaHJ41jfI-XeiJwCLcBGAs/s400/Alfred%2BVilleneuve%2B--%2Bexhibit%2Bin%2BScotland.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-8402354304526672492017-07-11T14:49:00.004-03:002017-07-11T14:50:50.418-03:00Elizabeth Bishop documentary film shoot in Great Village<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Nova Scotia film-maker John Scott (Magpie Productions) has kindly sent a note about a recent shoot (7-9 July 2017) in Great Village for his documentary film about Elizabeth Bishop. He has kindly sent along some images, which I am delighted to share. His little EB was Harley Spencer-Lowe and his “Gammie” (Bishop’s maternal grandmother) was Wanda Graham.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Here is John’s description of this part of the process:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;">“We shot some dramatic re-enactments in the Elizabeth Bishop house in Great Village for our feature documentary <i>Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing</i>. We wanted to tell some of the story of Elizabeth Bishop’s time as a child growing up in Nova Scotia. This has been an ongoing project for six years but is nearing its completion. For more information go to the facebook page – and like it!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.bishop.artoflosing/">https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.bishop.artoflosing/</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;">We are cheering you on, John, and very much looking forward to seeing your documentary!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0ATjOfLo9-E/WWUOizu3DkI/AAAAAAAACOY/LY3_jWxtGGcylebeQrPEN1A9P2WwFKwVQCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_0089.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0ATjOfLo9-E/WWUOizu3DkI/AAAAAAAACOY/LY3_jWxtGGcylebeQrPEN1A9P2WwFKwVQCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_0089.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot;;">(John Scott, Wanda Graham and Harley Spencer-Lowe</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot;;">in the dining room of the EB House.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot;;">Photo by Briony Carros.)</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qNyMjPNt_BU/WWUPBEz0v9I/AAAAAAAACOc/CP0TKQi7xRkY9tj26jXZmTreaeGbQ564wCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_0106.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qNyMjPNt_BU/WWUPBEz0v9I/AAAAAAAACOc/CP0TKQi7xRkY9tj26jXZmTreaeGbQ564wCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_0106.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;">&nbsp;<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(John and Harley in the back yard of the EB House. Photo by Briony Carros.)</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VGhf2cWA7c4/WWUPVTSHvwI/AAAAAAAACOg/FJu7x6J2H_YndxsWvC2YKSozqNTEiKE9ACLcBGAs/s1600/EB%2BSchool%2Bpromo%2Bshot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VGhf2cWA7c4/WWUPVTSHvwI/AAAAAAAACOg/FJu7x6J2H_YndxsWvC2YKSozqNTEiKE9ACLcBGAs/s320/EB%2BSchool%2Bpromo%2Bshot.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Harley as EB in front of the Great Village School. Photo by John Scott.)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-38190965834746165572017-07-04T11:07:00.003-03:002017-07-04T11:07:59.856-03:00Elizabeth Bishop’s Ancestry: A study in migration<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In May 2003 I attended an American Literature Association conference in Boston. I was invited to present a paper on a panel about Bishop and her New England connections. My paper was entitled: “Elizabeth Bishop and the ‘Boston States’.” I had only fifteen minutes to say something on this subject, so I decided to write a poem exploring Bishop’s ancestry, which had deep roots in both the Maritimes and New England. Earlier that year, Muir MacLachlan, a dear resident of Great Village and a Bishop contemporary, had died. I took his death as the anchor for my talk. I have been wanting to post this talk on the blog for some time, but various things have delayed me doing so. The other day I began to read Kay Redfield Jamison’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire, A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character</i> (Knopf, 2017). This well-written, nuanced, insightful book begins with a dive into Lowell’s ancestry, as so much of mental illness has a hereditary aspect. Reading Jamison’s insights brought me quickly back to my little poem, an attempt to summarize the impact of ancestry on Bishop’s life and art. So, I thought I would share that long ago conference paper now. Apologies for all the text, but sometimes pictures are not enough. There must be words.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">********************</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">There was another little girl in Primer Class, besides me, and one awful day she wet her pants, right in the front seat, and was sent home. There were two little Micmac Indian boys, Jimmy and Johnny Crow, who had dark little faces and shiny black hair and eyes, just alike....Almost everyone went barefoot to school, but I had to wear brown sandals with buckles, against my will. When I went home the first day and was asked who was in Primer Class with me, I replied, ‘Manure MacLaughlin,’ [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sic</i>] as his name sounded to me. I was familiar with manure – there was a great pile of it beside the barn – but of course his real name was Muir, and everyone laughed. Muir wore a navy-blue cap, with a red-and-yellow maple leaf embroidered above the visor.” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">CPr</i> 9)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">On January 3, 2003, Muir MacLachlan died in Great Village, Nova Scotia. He was 92 years old. If she were alive today Elizabeth Bishop would be 92 years old. What does Muir MacLachlan have to do with Elizabeth Bishop and the “Boston States”? Nothing directly, but he has a great deal to do with Elizabeth Bishop and Great Village and Nova Scotia; and Great Village and Nova Scotia historically have quite a bit to do with the “Boston States.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Muir’s death marked the passing of an era in Great Village – he was perhaps the last person there who knew Elizabeth Bishop as a child. Muir’s advanced age and his death in January are linked in my mind to an article I read a short time later, which coincidentally was published in the January 2003 issue of <i>Smithsonian</i>. Written by Mary Duenwald, the article is entitled “Puzzle of the Century.” It examines the phenomenon of the large number of centenarians living in Nova Scotia. To explain why this article is a chain link in my thinking, I quote a passage:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“Yet the province’s cluster of centenarians has begged for a scientific explanation ever since it came to light several years ago. Dr. Thomas Perls, who conducts research on centenarians at Boston Medical Center, noticed that people in his study often spoke of very old relatives in Nova Scotia. (To be sure, the two regions have historically close ties; a century ago, young Nova Scotians sought their fortunes in what they called ‘the Boston States.’) At a gerontology meeting, Perls talked to one of [Dr. Chris] McKnight’s Dalhousie [University] colleagues {Dalhousie is in Halifax, Nova Scotia}, who reported seeing a centenarian’s obituary in a Halifax newspaper nearly every week. ‘That was amazing,’ Perls recalls. ‘Down here, I see obituaries for centenarians maybe once every five or six weeks.’ Perls says he became convinced that ‘Nova Scotians had something up their sleeve’ that enabled them to reach such advanced ages. ‘Someone had to look into it.’ (74)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">In January 2003 Tom Travisano invited me to participate in this panel and speak about Elizabeth Bishop and the “Boston States.” Thus events, which might otherwise have remained discrete, became linked in my mind.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I have written at some length about the close historical ties between the Maritimes and New England, about the rôle this geo-political, socio-economic interconnection played in Elizabeth Bishop’s childhood and adolescence.<sup>1</sup>The metaphor I have used most frequently is that of migration – the continuous toing and froing between both regions, so regular in certain eras that it seemed a force of nature, it seemed as regular as tide. It was so for Elizabeth Bishop:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“First, she had come home, with her child. Then she had gone away again, alone, and left the child. Then she had come home. Then she had gone away again, with her sister; and now she was home again....So many things in the village came from Boston, and even I had once come from there. But I remembered only being here, with my grandmother.” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">CPr</i> 252, 254)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">The idea of the “Boston States” is inextricably linked to the Maritimes. It is a Maritime phrase. It has lost much of its currency and relevance in today’s globalization, yet even in <i>my</i> childhood I remember it being used. When I was three my parents took a trip (still frequently done then), to the “Boston States” to visit Nova Scotia friends who had moved to Worcester.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I decided the best way to convey the organic quality of this ebb and flow in Bishop’s life was to write a kind of litany. I have chosen to frame this litany impressionistically. The facts are multiple and highly intertwined, fascinating in themselves but too involved to recount here. So I offer a poetic version instead. Keep in mind that Elizabeth Bishop knew a great deal about each of the relatives I mention, knew their stories. The “here and there” of this litany was her earliest “total immersion.” She was a full participant (willing and unwilling) in the tide of life between these regions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>I dedicate these words to the memory of Muir, and my apologies to Elizabeth Bishop for my awkward narrative (as opposed to lyrical) lines.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Her ancestors sailed from England</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">for every reason imaginable,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">sailed towards the future, which is now</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">the unreclaimable past.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Fosters trace to William the Conqueror.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Bulmers trace to before William the Conqueror.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Bishops and Hutchinsons trace beyond memory.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Somewhere, so far back,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">hidden in the folds of Fales, Meade, Hooper and Black,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">the lines diverged from the seven clan mothers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Somewhere, not so far back, the codes held</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">in these bones and blood washed up</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">on nearby shores: colonies of wilderness,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">colonies of hope, colonies of construction</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">and deconstruction, and every ancestor must account.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Fosters trace to Massachusetts.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Bulmers trace to Nova Scotia.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Bishops trace to Prince Edward Island.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Hutchinsons</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"> trace to New Brunswick.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">The matrix is artisans – weavers, farmers,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">carpenters, tanners; seamstresses, gardeners,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">healers, cooks – crafting from scratch</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">(she once wrote “in a pinch”) new lives</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“in unthought of ways,” new ideas forged</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">from molten iron (the too hot imagination),</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">cooled into judges, deacons and politicians</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">with obedient or not so obedient wives.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">The circle constricts towards the centre;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">the trajectories lie in closer proximity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">What force in nature brings together</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">disparate lives as though on purpose?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">She would have said “wanderlust.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">It must be a gene.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">The matrix set inside a vast historical pattern</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">because the sea is the first highway,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">an element of motion older than all pilgrims</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">combined. Its paradigm is tide. Time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">The wanderlust kept alive by the Hutchinsons</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">– master mariners and missionaries who sailed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">around the Horn, sailed to Egypt,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">to India and back to England. Sailed and spoke</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">the journeys – this line was the artists: writers,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">translators, painters, orators.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Her affinity was always with the artists,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">who settled and never settled, who appeared</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">and vanished, because that is what artists do.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">John Bishop emigrated from Prince Edward Island</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">to Rhode Island to Massachusetts. He married</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Sarah Foster; their large family included William.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">William Bulmer took a young man’s tour</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">of New England, then settled in Nova Scotia.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">He married Elizabeth Hutchinson;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">their large family included Gertrude.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">All the ancestral inclinations converged here,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">at the turn of the twentieth century,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">in a moment (lost to the record)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">when this William and this Gertrude met.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">It all happened for this one reason</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">(why not?) – it all happened for every</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">other reason imaginable or unimaginable,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">remembered or lost. Is there a reason</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">to choose a nexus, study it,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">realize, as she did,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">truth is an imaginary iceberg,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">visceral, looming, cold?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Her study of the consequences</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">of this lost moment lasted a lifetime.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Begin again: to Boston to Boston to train</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">as a nurse; home again, home again</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">because she was ill. Back to Boston</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">where he was ill; she nursed him</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">back to health.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">The bond can only be imagined: She fled</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">to Great Village afraid of the power</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">of her love. He followed her to Great Village</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">determined to declare the power of his love.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">In 1908 they were married. They sailed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">to Jamaica, to Panama for their honeymoon.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Back in Massachusetts they lived and loved</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">their only child into being.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">1911 was a year of life and death (isn’t every year?).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">1911 began the back and forth of her imagination;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">life began like a cradle rocking. Rocking gently</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">on the sea between worlds, both worlds home,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">neither world home. She said the poet</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“carries home within.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Is there a reason</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">to choose? Let the rocking continue</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">her whole life: aboard the <i>North Star</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">(ponder all the shipwrecks); aboard</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">the <i>Königstein</i>, the <i>Normandy</i>, the <i>Britannic</i>,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">the <i>Exeter</i>, the <i>Bowplate</i>, the <i>Jarlsberg</i>,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">the <i>Prince of Fundy</i>. Life began <i>en route</i>:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">steam back and forth between Yarmouth</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">and Boston, ride the “unk-etty” train</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">between Londonderry Station and Boston,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">motor the to and fro in early Fords and Chevrolets,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">sit in the long bus limbo on trips between</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Great</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"> Village and Boston. Occasionally fly,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">if you have to.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Great-grandparents did so.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Grandparents and great-uncles did so.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Maternal aunts and girl cousins did so.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Even Uncle Arthur, who never went anywhere</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">in his life, drove from the village to Boston</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">once or twice, to visit his daughters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Look at him, he ended up in Brazil,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">like she did. Willingly</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">and unwillingly she came to and left</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Nova Scotia</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">. Willingly</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">and unwillingly she came to and left</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Massachusetts</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">. Patterns as old as her ancestors,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">as new as her own next breath.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Lost and found words were mantras,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">she called them “first syllables,”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">which vanished from her tongue</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">like her father and mother from her life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Where does the historian, the biographer,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">the critic, the artist locate the initial conditions,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">the uncanny convergences, the accidents?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">In her lines, in her vision (look, that is),</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">in her memory, which lift the weight</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">of uncountable yesterdays, as far back</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">as William the Conqueror,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">and as close as old men named Muir.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">********************</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Notes</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">1. See Sandra Barry, “Invisible Threads and Individual Rubatos: Migration in Elizabeth Bishop’s Life and Work.” In <i>“In Worcester, Massachusetts” Essays on Elizabeth Bishop</i>. ed. Laura Jehns Menides and Angela G. Dorenkamp. New York: Peter Lang, 1999, pp. 59-73.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">********************</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Works Cited</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Bishop, Elizabeth. <i>The Collected Prose</i>. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Duenwald, Mary. “Puzzle of the Century.”<i> Smithsonian</i> (January 2003), pp. 72-80.</span></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-83208085285989232142017-06-25T08:09:00.003-03:002017-06-25T08:10:38.960-03:00EBSNS AGM, 17 June 2017 -- the final glimpses<div style="text-align: center;">One more go of photos of our lively<br />Annual General Meeting last Saturday.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WouAw0X9qCY/WU-X0lvIN4I/AAAAAAAACNs/PtQS34-s6RovSuoP9uGG9NZRiT8AFDj1ACLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BReception%2B--%2BJohn%2Band%2Bfood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WouAw0X9qCY/WU-X0lvIN4I/AAAAAAAACNs/PtQS34-s6RovSuoP9uGG9NZRiT8AFDj1ACLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BReception%2B--%2BJohn%2Band%2Bfood.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Great Village Fire Brigade Auxiliary always puts</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">out a delicious spread for all the hungry folks. John Barnstead (l.)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">is usually one of the first to line up for the treats.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">&nbsp;<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LATxTCCYpPg/WU-YS1YMYNI/AAAAAAAACN0/tPqkFRVE-I8T07vPZ0blpcY8eCsDApWKwCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BReception%2B--%2Bcrowd%2B--%2BAlexander.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LATxTCCYpPg/WU-YS1YMYNI/AAAAAAAACN0/tPqkFRVE-I8T07vPZ0blpcY8eCsDApWKwCLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BReception%2B--%2Bcrowd%2B--%2BAlexander.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our special guest, Alexander MacLeod.</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5X_bWag-aDo/WU-Y6oVROAI/AAAAAAAACOA/D_Ph5QdNeEow_JP8TCy_sbpIuwKhigqMwCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BReception%2B--%2Bcrowd%2B4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5X_bWag-aDo/WU-Y6oVROAI/AAAAAAAACOA/D_Ph5QdNeEow_JP8TCy_sbpIuwKhigqMwCLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BReception%2B--%2Bcrowd%2B4.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">One of the lovely aspects of our meetings is</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">the deep conversations that happen afterwards.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DLMbjRo8ZKA/WU-ZVGrNXqI/AAAAAAAACOE/AzCOiKBgHgkgF8fEX0E8Fv-iWA3c5oIVACLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2Bcrowd%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DLMbjRo8ZKA/WU-ZVGrNXqI/AAAAAAAACOE/AzCOiKBgHgkgF8fEX0E8Fv-iWA3c5oIVACLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2Bcrowd%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The assembled in beautiful St. James Church.</span></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The EBSNS has become involved in a new project, a "Little Free Library," being set up in Great Village by the Colchester Adult Learning Association. Stay tuned for an update about this exciting endeavour.</div><br /><br />Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-74673801076106441352017-06-21T09:15:00.000-03:002017-06-21T09:17:24.388-03:00A few more photos from the EBSNS Annual General Meeting on 17 June 2017<div style="text-align: justify;">Another round of photographs, courtesy of Susan Kerslake, showing glimpses of the artwork in the "Echoes of EB" gallery. We hope you have a chance to stop by St. James Church and see what the EBSNS and our contributing artists have done.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yags2AIs5vI/WUphg3QlVnI/AAAAAAAACM4/fN-BWqHT4HohZ2Gm23I1j_mKZX0jDHNBwCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BGallery%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yags2AIs5vI/WUphg3QlVnI/AAAAAAAACM4/fN-BWqHT4HohZ2Gm23I1j_mKZX0jDHNBwCLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BGallery%2B1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Artists l. to r. Janet Guinan, Laurie Gunn, Andre Meredith).</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KE-rqACiHjs/WUpiKUgiv4I/AAAAAAAACNI/CWZnwFAMvugd1o62bq8uAPP4wPSBSbUWgCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BGallery%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KE-rqACiHjs/WUpiKUgiv4I/AAAAAAAACNI/CWZnwFAMvugd1o62bq8uAPP4wPSBSbUWgCLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BGallery%2B3.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Laurie Gunn's "Awful but cheerful" hooked rug.)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Rh-LkzkXwz8/WUpiYqLJA9I/AAAAAAAACNM/Cv6pW0sSv4s4vlt7p6_-OnG0H7hAi41EwCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BGallery%2B4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Rh-LkzkXwz8/WUpiYqLJA9I/AAAAAAAACNM/Cv6pW0sSv4s4vlt7p6_-OnG0H7hAi41EwCLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BGallery%2B4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Artists l. to r. top: Christene Sandeson, Joy Laking,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Catherine MacLean. Bottom: Bruce Gray)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z2K8PuJloKk/WUpioqrRuJI/AAAAAAAACNQ/zDYqjrKqdEscnk1PS93J-7Z8vy85MerKgCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BGallery%2B5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z2K8PuJloKk/WUpioqrRuJI/AAAAAAAACNQ/zDYqjrKqdEscnk1PS93J-7Z8vy85MerKgCLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BGallery%2B5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Not technically part of the inaugural art exhibit, this beautiful</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">painted chair by Halifax artist Tayia Barss</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">used to belong to the EB House.)</span></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stay tuned for more AGM photos.</span></div><br /><br />Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-41651138972853218852017-06-19T08:22:00.004-03:002017-06-19T08:24:24.156-03:00Another successful Annual General Meeting<div style="text-align: justify;">On Saturday, 17 June 2017, the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia held its Annual General Meeting at St. James Church in Great Village, N.S. Around forty members and guests gathered for a lively event which saw the opening of "Elizabeth Bishop's Beginnings" exhibit and "Echoes of EB" art gallery. What follows are a few images from the day, courtesy of EBSNS member Susan Kerslake. Minutes of the meeting will soon be posted on our website. The EBSNS thanks all those who attended for their support, as well as all the people who helped to make the exhibit and gallery possible. Heartfelt thanks to our guest speaker, Alexander MacLeod, for sharing his powerful words. And a special thank you to the St. James Church of Great Village Preservation Society for offering us part of the beautiful sanctuary.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first thing on the agenda was our usual business. Here Patti Sharpe presents her first President's Report. That's past president Laurie Gunn on the left and secretary Sandra Barry in the centre.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jMwKCdurz3g/WUeuPJW6PHI/AAAAAAAACLc/bzyd2y603CgMmiFH3TsbVT_nn-8rzpbcwCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BBusiness%2Bconducted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jMwKCdurz3g/WUeuPJW6PHI/AAAAAAAACLc/bzyd2y603CgMmiFH3TsbVT_nn-8rzpbcwCLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BBusiness%2Bconducted.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Then the exhibit and gallery were officially opened, with time for those gathered to look at the displays and art work. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SqqNQTOPMV8/WUevVsRqGGI/AAAAAAAACLs/caHZBEGUu4ocg9AZmXB_J4FZEw8FE1WMQCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BExhibit%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SqqNQTOPMV8/WUevVsRqGGI/AAAAAAAACLs/caHZBEGUu4ocg9AZmXB_J4FZEw8FE1WMQCLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BExhibit%2B1.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A half dozen local artists had contributed the inaugral gallery exhibit, including this beautiful carving by Deverne Rushton, his interpretation of Bishop's famous poem "The Fish."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wTUtr2gkoq0/WUewDvK1crI/AAAAAAAACL4/cy-LeNQp3qUW_PZNQ1LHroJ9fLqgSUjmwCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BGallery%2B2%2B--%2BDeverne%2527s%2Bcarving.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wTUtr2gkoq0/WUewDvK1crI/AAAAAAAACL4/cy-LeNQp3qUW_PZNQ1LHroJ9fLqgSUjmwCLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BGallery%2B2%2B--%2BDeverne%2527s%2Bcarving.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our guest speaker was Nova Scotia writer Alexander MacLeod. After reading mesmerizing us with a compelling read of one of his short stories, I had the honour to ask him some questions.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EFBvXV8Osxo/WUewjWhbkuI/AAAAAAAACMA/Rwj8C0su5cUEAsWFY2Ky59g08aUGcNUNACLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BQ%2526A%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EFBvXV8Osxo/WUewjWhbkuI/AAAAAAAACMA/Rwj8C0su5cUEAsWFY2Ky59g08aUGcNUNACLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BQ%2526A%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before making our way across the road to the legion for our reception, we drew for two prizes. The first was a door prize (a lovely hooked rug seat cover done by Laurie Gunn). Binnie Brennan was the lucky winner.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tr2FXq-lo9I/WUezYTCnSHI/AAAAAAAACMo/HTYRO6vIr6kr6oAaQx6uzvWOEB2gbWQzwCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BBinnie%2Band%2BLaurie%2B--%2Bdoor%2Bprize%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tr2FXq-lo9I/WUezYTCnSHI/AAAAAAAACMo/HTYRO6vIr6kr6oAaQx6uzvWOEB2gbWQzwCLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BBinnie%2Band%2BLaurie%2B--%2Bdoor%2Bprize%2B1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then the big draw for the raffle prize (Alfred Villeneuve's wonderful en plein air painting of Algonquin Park, which had been on display during the meeting). Alexander did the honours. The winner was Halifax resident Mary Blanchard, who was not at the meeting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FCNpGG4Xu5M/WUexDPvBXTI/AAAAAAAACMI/O82ZysqNM_U4OnHIajkdtvO54FeEkMFRgCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2Bdraw%2Bfor%2Bpainting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FCNpGG4Xu5M/WUexDPvBXTI/AAAAAAAACMI/O82ZysqNM_U4OnHIajkdtvO54FeEkMFRgCLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2Bdraw%2Bfor%2Bpainting.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then it was time to indulge in the delicious sandwiches, sweets, coffee, tea and punch that the Great Village Fire Brigade Auxiliary had prepared for us, set up at the Royal Canadian Legion across the road. Lots of lively conversations took place and folks were slow to leave all the conviviality.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WbXMuZpzj00/WUexXk7tEVI/AAAAAAAACMM/-W_bxyAfwk0U_y-l33PI0s6RkQwCtpHpwCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BReception%2B--%2Bcrowd%2B5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WbXMuZpzj00/WUexXk7tEVI/AAAAAAAACMM/-W_bxyAfwk0U_y-l33PI0s6RkQwCtpHpwCLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BReception%2B--%2Bcrowd%2B5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is a glimpe of the hard working auxiliary ladies taking a well-deserved break in the kitchen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8UVnwkZmfuY/WUeyHt70hGI/AAAAAAAACMc/604lLXCEY2sX_okwvZrYRzQKeKqRW3fewCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BReception%2B--%2BAuxiliary%2Bladies%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8UVnwkZmfuY/WUeyHt70hGI/AAAAAAAACMc/604lLXCEY2sX_okwvZrYRzQKeKqRW3fewCLcBGAs/s320/AGM%2B2017%2B--%2BReception%2B--%2BAuxiliary%2Bladies%2B3.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>I will share more photos from the AGM over the next few days. We hope everyone enjoyed this gathering as much as the EBSNS board did presenting it to our members and guests.Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-64026266365220752192017-06-17T01:16:00.000-03:002017-06-17T01:18:51.369-03:00REMINDER: The 2017 Annual General Meeting is TODAY -- June 17, 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MS2EWisVyCs/WUSs7T4GHYI/AAAAAAAACIk/RFm4fBCoHog9836JyECjOB-asGjfJ7BdQCLcBGAs/s1600/AGM-poster-2017-final-for-social-media.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MS2EWisVyCs/WUSs7T4GHYI/AAAAAAAACIk/RFm4fBCoHog9836JyECjOB-asGjfJ7BdQCLcBGAs/s640/AGM-poster-2017-final-for-social-media.jpg" width="400" height="600" data-original-width="1237" data-original-height="1600" /></a></div>John A. Barnsteadnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-25336397455154134352017-06-16T10:43:00.005-03:002017-06-16T10:43:59.729-03:00Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive: Planned Activities, Class 5<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: #dddd99; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><b>Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive&nbsp;</b></div><div style="background-color: #dddd99; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><b>NEH Summer Seminar June 12-30, 2017&nbsp;</b></div><div style="background-color: #dddd99; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><b>Vassar College Project&nbsp;</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #dddd99; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"></b><br style="background-color: #dddd99; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;" /></div><div style="background-color: #dddd99; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><b>Director: Dr. Bethany Hicok</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Friday, June 16: Biography</b>&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Readings:</b> Travisano, “Bishop and Biography” from the <i>Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop</i>, edited by Cleghorn &amp; Ellis (2014); Fountain and Brazeau, <i>Remembering Elizabeth Bishop</i>, Megan Marshall,<i> A Miracle for Breakfast</i>. You should also be familiar with Lorrie Goldensohn’s <i>The Biography of a Poetry</i> and Brett Millier’s, <i>Life and the Memory of It</i>, the first full-length biography of Bishop.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Friday afternoon:</b> Dr. Barbara Page will join us at 4:30 in the Rose Parlor (Main) to talk about how the Bishop papers got to Vassar and the process of sorting through them; she will also give us a brief tour of important Bishop sites at the College. </div>John A. Barnsteadnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-68782482418676784222017-06-15T06:42:00.001-03:002017-06-15T06:42:17.520-03:00Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive: Planned Activities, Class 4<div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive&nbsp;</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>NEH Summer Seminar June 12-30, 2017&nbsp;</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Vassar College Project&nbsp;</b></div><b></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Director: Dr. Bethany Hicok</b></div><b><br /></b><b>Thursday, June 15:</b> Editing<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here we move into a discussion of Bishop and the shifting landscape of the poet’s reputation as new editions and biographies are published and new materials come into the archive. No scholar has defined this shifting landscape more thoroughly than Dr. Thomas Travisano, who will join us today and Friday for discussion on archival research, teaching Bishop and her circle, editing, and the art of biography. Dr. Travisano will also be available to consult with scholars on their projects today and tomorrow.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Readings:</b> Travisano, “Editing 20th Century Letters: The Road to Words in Air,” from <i>Letter Writing Among Poets</i>, Ed. Ellis; Cleghorn, Hicok, Travisano, “Introduction,” Gray, “Postcards and Sunsets: Bishop’s Revisions and the Problem of Excess,” Goldensohn, “Elizabeth Bishop’s Drafts: ‘That Sense of Constant Readjustment,’” all from <i>Elizabeth Bishop in the 21st Century: Reading the New Editions</i>; Hicok, “Elizabeth Bishop’s Translations,” from <i>Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil</i>; and <i>Bishop and Lowell, Words in Air.</i></div>John A. Barnsteadnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-20499690858477790382017-06-13T07:45:00.002-03:002017-06-14T07:51:56.163-03:00Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive: Planned Activities, Class 2<div style="text-align: center;"><b></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive&nbsp;</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>NEH Summer Seminar June 12-30, 2017&nbsp;</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Vassar College Project&nbsp;</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Director: Dr. Bethany Hicok</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"Tuesday, June 13: &nbsp;</b><b>Introductions</b>: We will be introducing ourselves and our teaching and research interests as they relate to the seminar topics. What project will you be working on during the three weeks? After these introductions, we begin with a discussion of Bishop as a poet. What makes her important? What poems do we value the most? Why? How do we teach her? This first day of the seminar is important to help establish the poet at the center of our study and to explore the different approaches that we might build on as we interrogate the relationship between the poet and her archives. Ron Patkus will join us during the last half hour of our session to talk about Bishop’s papers, the history and contents of the Vassar archive, recent acquisitions, and holdings in other repositories. He will also review procedures for using the collection at Vassar.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"Readings</b>: Core readings that will inform our discussion about the poet and her archives include these primary sources—Bishop’s poems, letters, and drafts, including<i> Poems, Prose, Edgar Allan Poe &amp; the Juke-Box</i>, and published letters (<i>One Art, Words in Air, Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker</i>). &nbsp;[...]"</div>John A. Barnsteadnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-8683570829111057692017-06-12T07:32:00.001-03:002017-06-12T08:08:39.249-03:00NEH Summer Seminar "Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive" Begins Today (June 12, 2017)<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The complete syllabus and reading list for the seminar, from which this excerpt has been taken, may be found <a href="http://www.westminster.edu/academics/events/neh-bishop/pdf/syllabus-reading-list.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive&nbsp;</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>NEH Summer Seminar June 12-30, 2017&nbsp;</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Vassar College&nbsp;</b><br /><b>Project Director: Dr. Bethany Hicok</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">&nbsp;“…alone in the Archive, in the counting house of dreams,&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">the historian opens the bundles…”&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">--Steedman,<i> Dust: The Archive and Cultural History</i>&nbsp;</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“The revised poem had been typed out on very thin paper&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">and folded into a small square, sealed with a gold star sticker</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">&nbsp;and signed on the outside, ‘Lovingly, Rose Peebles.’”&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">--Elizabeth Bishop, “Efforts of Affection”&nbsp;</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“I am writing a poem about a litter of objects in a museum&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">whose uses the spectator can’t make out.”&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">--Bishop to Ruth Foster, 1947&nbsp;</span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“How can anyone want such things?”&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">--Bishop, “Crusoe in England”&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"Seminar Description:</b> In<i> Dust</i>, Carolyn Steedman defines the Archives “as a name for the many places in which the past (which does not now exist, but which once did actually happen; which cannot be retrieved, but which may be represented) has deposited some traces and fragments.” More poetically, it is “also a place of dreams”—a place “where the past lives, where ink on parchment can be made to speak.” Steedman reminds us that archives and the stories we tell about them are necessarily narrative reconstructions of the shards we have excavated from them. At the same time, the archive is a place where we bring our own desires, our “general fever,” as it were, “to know and to have the past.” Will the archive yield its secrets to us? For Elizabeth Bishop, there is no question that archival documents can be made to speak. But what do they say? This seminar positions us at the intersection of archival theory and literary study in order to explore the relationship between the poet and her archive, aesthetics and ethics, texts and avanttextes. The seminar will be organized around “case studies” in order to provide a model of integrative teaching and scholarship, helping us work through questions of ethics and aesthetics and to better understand the complex dimensions of authorship. As Iain Bailey has argued, we should think of the archive “as a place of work, rather than as a cache from which to draw certainties.” With this caveat in mind, we will act over the course of these three weeks as investigators, curators, collaborators, and inquirers in the workshop of literary production and its aesthetic products.<b> "</b></div>John A. Barnsteadnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-1188337139963251342017-06-11T14:49:00.001-03:002017-06-11T14:50:24.438-03:00Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia Annual General Meeting on 17 June 2017<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Only a few days before the EBSNS holds it AGM starting at 1:00 p.m., in St. James Church in Great Village, N.S. Besides our usual business, this year the society unveils the “Elizabeth Bishop’s Beginnings” exhibit and the “Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop” art gallery. The society has been working on this project all winter and is now ready to share it with all the community and the Bishop fans and other visitors who will spend time in the village this summer. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T6eoMghXy1o/WT2Blb_YHrI/AAAAAAAACLA/qD2k5cUiSIsRer0hHKKZ5ZSTJR5q_RuwgCLcB/s1600/IMG_7084.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T6eoMghXy1o/WT2Blb_YHrI/AAAAAAAACLA/qD2k5cUiSIsRer0hHKKZ5ZSTJR5q_RuwgCLcB/s320/IMG_7084.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(On 27 May 2017, the exhibit committee and</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">friends gathered for anotherinstallation session.&nbsp;</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Here are two images taken that day. It is coming together!)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">&nbsp;<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4rgFqfo1gVM/WT2CBcnKs_I/AAAAAAAACLE/IAjCYlMn2SMGhAEq5kOuYb2gq3IIw8sbACLcB/s1600/IMG_7085.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4rgFqfo1gVM/WT2CBcnKs_I/AAAAAAAACLE/IAjCYlMn2SMGhAEq5kOuYb2gq3IIw8sbACLcB/s320/IMG_7085.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">We will also draw for the raffle prize (an exhibit/gallery fund-raiser), which is a beautiful painting by Ontario artist Alfred Villeneuve. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mw8TnGLoJ2Y/WT2CKrF6ApI/AAAAAAAACLI/AagsLUtmf7w9Pmuwymp8wJd1t0P7znBGwCLcB/s1600/Raffle%2B--%2BAlfred%2BVilleneuve%2B--%2Bimage%2Bof%2Bpainting%2B--%2Bresized%2B--%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="465" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mw8TnGLoJ2Y/WT2CKrF6ApI/AAAAAAAACLI/AagsLUtmf7w9Pmuwymp8wJd1t0P7znBGwCLcB/s320/Raffle%2B--%2BAlfred%2BVilleneuve%2B--%2Bimage%2Bof%2Bpainting%2B--%2Bresized%2B--%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">And if all of this isn’t enough, we are delighted to welcome Nova Scotia writer Alexander MacLeod, who will read from his work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AGr7RHQKiAQ/WT2CVagft-I/AAAAAAAACLM/wSaWDJuljsg-rCsq009J9A45K2rQ77klQCLcB/s1600/SMU%2Breading%2B27%2BJanuary%2B2017%2B--%2BAlexander.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AGr7RHQKiAQ/WT2CVagft-I/AAAAAAAACLM/wSaWDJuljsg-rCsq009J9A45K2rQ77klQCLcB/s320/SMU%2Breading%2B27%2BJanuary%2B2017%2B--%2BAlexander.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This feast for the eyes, ears and mind will be followed by a feast for the body — a reception, catered by the Great Village Fire Brigade Auxiliary, will be held across the road in the Great Village Legion. Those who have experienced the food provided by this busy organization will be perfectly happy to step outside and cross the road for their delicious offering. Come join us next Saturday for our special gathering.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-10314904847884032092017-06-06T07:06:00.002-03:002017-06-14T07:51:39.915-03:00“Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop” Gallery: Profile of Artist Deverne Rushton<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dOFxy_JUgsM/WTZ-H9_7r9I/AAAAAAAACKs/Zu9K-Xa1m04AMkpu2UP2fGF1emh7c6zoACLcB/s1600/Head%2BShot%2B--%2BDeverne%2BRushton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1178" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dOFxy_JUgsM/WTZ-H9_7r9I/AAAAAAAACKs/Zu9K-Xa1m04AMkpu2UP2fGF1emh7c6zoACLcB/s320/Head%2BShot%2B--%2BDeverne%2BRushton.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Deverne Rushton was born and raised in Truro, Nova Scotia. He presently lives in Londonderry, N.S., with his wife, Valerie. He has two daughters and a new grandson. Deverne loved to draw all his life, but did not have any formal training in chainsaw carving or chiseling. He originally bought his chainsaw to clean up some old apple trees on his property, but saw something in a tree and instead made a memorial of a St. Bernard he had lost. Of his work, Deverne says, “I always had an interest in art and drew a lot as a kid, and carving the dog kind of reignited that interest.” The rest is history; “Devo’s Doins Chainsaw Carving” was officially born. A large scarecrow was one of those apple trees, and was completely carved and chiseled while still in the ground. Since then, Deverne has carved many wood sculptures using only a chainsaw and chisels. “It’s just whatever comes out of my head and I never make anything twice.” His designs are created in his head and, for the most part, without an initial drawing to guide him. Deverne continues to delight with each new carving, some of which include scarecrows, hockey players, hen and chicks, a skiing St. Bernard, fishermen, a beaver taking a ride on a curling rock, and two bear cubs climbing to their pot of honey.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">On a side note, Deverne is also a Handyman, and one of his jobs was helping take care of<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> the <span style="font-size: small;">Elizabeth Bishop House. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lJKL8fADzGU/WTZ-W0Oep5I/AAAAAAAACKw/MOAL0etePCQ_6AbR7a7co50sIF561cLRwCLcB/s1600/Wood%2BCarvings%2B11.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lJKL8fADzGU/WTZ-W0Oep5I/AAAAAAAACKw/MOAL0etePCQ_6AbR7a7co50sIF561cLRwCLcB/s320/Wood%2BCarvings%2B11.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoTitle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoTitle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">You can see more of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/devosdoinscarvings/?ref=settings">Deverne's work by clicking here</a>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">****** </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Ed. Note: As a former owner of the EB House, I can attest to Deverne’s skill and dedication to his craft. His help was invaluable. The above image shows a couple of his carvings on the verandah of the house.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoTitle" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-76660891522974567682017-06-03T07:20:00.003-03:002017-06-03T07:21:03.232-03:00“Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop” Gallery: Profile of Artist Laurie Gunn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XICjFp_eptY/WTKNE5Yev_I/AAAAAAAACKc/mQKd2XzBPnsxV70WjJloo9aD6jn7_EUCgCLcB/s1600/Head%2Bshot%2B--%2BLaurie%2BGunn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1150" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XICjFp_eptY/WTKNE5Yev_I/AAAAAAAACKc/mQKd2XzBPnsxV70WjJloo9aD6jn7_EUCgCLcB/s320/Head%2Bshot%2B--%2BLaurie%2BGunn.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Of her art, Laurie Gunn writes: “I have been taking photographs since my parents gave me my first camera about 55 years ago. It was in 1998 that I realized photography was important to me and it has since become my passion and it has brought me much happiness. Capturing images has helped me to see the world in a wonderful and captivating way. It fulfills my need to be creative which in turn contributes greatly to my well being.&nbsp; In photography I not only want to capture the image but also the feelings that go with the image.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Although my first love is photography, I also love being creative in other areas.&nbsp; In 2001 my good friend Joy Laking and I decided to become “hookers” and we went to Amherst, Nova Scotia, to learn from one of the best, Deanne Fitzpatrick.&nbsp;It only took one afternoon and I was hooked!! Since then I have lost count of the number of rugs and hooked projects that I have created. Being a rug hooker has helped me in my need to be creative and I love sharing my work with others.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Laurie Gunn got involved with the EBSNS at the time of the Bishop Centenary celebrations in 2011. She was a principle organizer of the EB100 Arts Festival that happened in Great Village that August. She subsequently became president of the society and co-edited <i>Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop: Elizabeth Bishop Centenary (2011) Writing Competition</i>, published in 2013.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">You can see more of Laurie’s photography on her website: <a href="http://www.lauriegunnphotos.com/">http://www.lauriegunnphotos.com/</a> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-59163804429827471672017-06-01T07:35:00.002-03:002017-06-01T09:04:18.078-03:00“Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop” Gallery: Profile of Artist Bruce Gray<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3GfjJiVgjfM/WS_tqs9ffNI/AAAAAAAACKM/i_20-8yb1Xw5HNlN9FN8gmTaZFdxWqjRwCLcB/s1600/Head%2Bshot%2B--%2BBruce%2BGray.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="438" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3GfjJiVgjfM/WS_tqs9ffNI/AAAAAAAACKM/i_20-8yb1Xw5HNlN9FN8gmTaZFdxWqjRwCLcB/s320/Head%2Bshot%2B--%2BBruce%2BGray.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Bruce Gray lives in Truro, Nova Scotia, and is an amateur artist who paints in oil, acrylic and watercolour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>He uses saturated pigments to paint unrealistic but representative landscapes and portraits. He paints for the pleasure of painting and seldom shows his paintings in public. Indeed, the majority of his paintings remain unfinished.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Bruce contributed one of his paintings, a striking image of St. James Church, to an EB100 exhibition held at the Nova Scotia Community College in Truro in the summer of 2011. He has been a member of the EBSNS board for several years.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-65692314950037424192017-05-29T08:53:00.003-03:002017-05-29T08:54:08.729-03:00“Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop” Gallery: Profile of Artist Janice Guinan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6J7KgplrUjU/WSwLLquJYVI/AAAAAAAACJ8/QxiPJ3TmJUgNeqTyBD_tGupHg6TJZg09wCLcB/s1600/Headshot%2B--%2BJanice%2BGuinan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1382" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6J7KgplrUjU/WSwLLquJYVI/AAAAAAAACJ8/QxiPJ3TmJUgNeqTyBD_tGupHg6TJZg09wCLcB/s320/Headshot%2B--%2BJanice%2BGuinan.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #00000a; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Janice Guinan</span><span style="color: #00000a;">&nbsp;is a self-taught artist&nbsp;</span>who derives her inspiration from an appreciation of God’s creation<span style="color: #00000a;">.&nbsp;</span>She passionately believes in the importance of the visual arts in the promotion and preservation of our heritage and culture.<span style="color: #00000a;">&nbsp;Working&nbsp;</span>primarily in acrylics and oils, her paintings are part of the permanent art collection of the Town of Truro, the County of Colchester, the RCMP Operational Communication Centre, the Fairbanks Interpretive Centre , Nova Scotia Power, and in private collections across Canada, the United States and Europe. Guinan has been nominated twice for the Lieutenant Governor’s Masterworks Art Award. Her artwork has also been published in various media publications and was given special recognition in the 75th Special Anniversary edition of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Royal Canadian Mounted Police Quarterly</i>. She is a featured artist in Dee Appleby’s book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Contemporary Nova Scotia Artists, Volume 2</i>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Of her art and artistic practice, Janice writes:</span>&nbsp;“For me painting presents a challenge and an adventure, a means of discovery which leads to a greater appreciation for the world around us. Having a fascination for recording the people and places of our time in history provides immense inspiration and vast subject matter that is constantly changing and ever expanding. I believe visual art encourages one to dig deeper beyond what is seen to capture the essence of what is beyond and value its meaning.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">You can see more of Janice’s work on her website: <a href="http://www.janiceguinan.com/">http://www.janiceguinan.com/</a> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">**************</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Ed. Note: On Saturday, 27 May, the EB exhibit/art gallery committee and friends gathered to do the final part of the installation of the "Elizabeth Bishop's Beginnings" exhibit and "Echoes of EB" art gallery exhibition. Stay tuned for more updates about this project and the upcoming EBSNS AGM.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-54499766902065901792017-05-23T08:02:00.002-03:002017-05-23T08:03:18.196-03:00“Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop” Gallery: Profile of Artist Andrew Meredith<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2yD7S7ZHVMA/WSQV2wfe76I/AAAAAAAACJg/IfynyV6J9OEyercwn5bRJy0ug0YhNjyewCLcB/s1600/Head%2Bshot%2B--%2BAndrew%2BMeredith.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2yD7S7ZHVMA/WSQV2wfe76I/AAAAAAAACJg/IfynyV6J9OEyercwn5bRJy0ug0YhNjyewCLcB/s320/Head%2Bshot%2B--%2BAndrew%2BMeredith.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Andrew Meredith</span> finds inspiration for his vivid paintings, prints and cards in his east coast roots and current western home. Raised in Nova Scotia where he began his career, Andrew now lives in Saskatchewan. An artist of many mediums, Andrew’s subjects range from the realistic to the fantastical, and are expressed with a vibrantly colourful palette. Andrew has had solo arts shows in western Canada, including the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre, and in group exhibitions, including the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Shurniak Art Gallery in Saskatchewan. His works can be found in homes, offices, gift shops and galleries across Canada. In 2015 his drawing “Winter Fun” was a finalist in a design contest for the Royal Canadian Mint. Andrew has joined the colouring book renaissance and created one to honour Great Village, which was launched in the village a couple of years ago. He is launching a Nova Scotia colouring book in Great Village in May 2017. Andrew spends part of his summer in the village, so the EBSNS definitely regards him as a Colchester County artist. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c08iIM45UxY/WSQWbovS2fI/AAAAAAAACJo/SGvrxaVSRgQaQtiVZK8lpLaRQSPnZ5qEgCLcB/s1600/Andrew%2BMeredith%2B--%2Bcover%2Bof%2Bcolouring%2Bbook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c08iIM45UxY/WSQWbovS2fI/AAAAAAAACJo/SGvrxaVSRgQaQtiVZK8lpLaRQSPnZ5qEgCLcB/s320/Andrew%2BMeredith%2B--%2Bcover%2Bof%2Bcolouring%2Bbook.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">You can see some of Andrew’s art on his website: <a href="http://andrewmeredithart.blogspot.ca/">http://andrewmeredithart.blogspot.ca/</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">******</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Quick update</b>: I am excited to report that the EB exhibit/gallery committee has begun the installation of the works for the inaugural gallery exhibition. We are making good progress and are on track for the big opening at our Annual General Meeting on 17 June. Stay tuned for more updates.</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-51438629623228311872017-05-21T10:06:00.001-03:002017-05-21T10:06:33.833-03:00Ebb and Flow: A Response to Seán Street’s Estuary<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The EB100 project I am proudest of is Suzie LeBlanc’s CD of settings of Bishop poems by Canadian composers, “I am in need of music.” Bringing poetry and music together is something of which I deeply approve, though it does not happen as often as it could and should. But a new CD launched in Liverpool, England, on 18 May, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Estuary</i>, is a stirring merge of poetry, music, reading and singing. I wrote a post about Seán Street and this exciting project in late April: <a href="http://elizabethbishopcentenary.blogspot.ca/2017/04/sean-street-and-neil-campbell-estuary.html">http://elizabethbishopcentenary.blogspot.ca/2017/04/sean-street-and-neil-campbell-estuary.html</a>. Now that I have listened to the CD several times, I want to write a response. I am not a musician and know little about the compositional aspects of music. I respond to it emotionally, but I won’t let that stop me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oHKeTj4KgPc/WSGOwC1eKhI/AAAAAAAACJI/xMx2PDxdnjo5w8C4UnqPAzHHc1spdqACQCLcB/s1600/Sean%2BStreet%2B--%2BEstuary%2Blaunch%2B18%2BMay%2B2017%2B--%2BSean%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oHKeTj4KgPc/WSGOwC1eKhI/AAAAAAAACJI/xMx2PDxdnjo5w8C4UnqPAzHHc1spdqACQCLcB/s320/Sean%2BStreet%2B--%2BEstuary%2Blaunch%2B18%2BMay%2B2017%2B--%2BSean%2B1.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Seán Street reading at the launch. Photo by Adrian Wharton.)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Estuary: a place where realms meet and merge — salt and fresh water, land and air, light and night; a place where there is changing weather because of the convergence of so many elements. A poem is an estuary. So, this title is provocative and right.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The more I listened to the ebb and flow, the surfacings and submergings between the poems and the music, the words spoken and the words sung, the deeper I fell into this haunting, haunted world, an inter-space both clearly itself and utterly mysterious. As the first poem, “Change,” says, “Sound shows us.” Here that sound is first the clear, cadenced voice of the poet, then the liquid rhythms of the guitar, then the warm texture of the singer’s voice.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Many of the tracks have Seán reading his highly tangible, sensory poems, an unfolding that often happens with the pulse of music surrounding (above, below, from within) the words. How did I respond to these dialogues? I felt always calm and clear-headed, pulled by a quiet surety, a knowing of place and time.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Another track, “Shipping Forecast,” as well as several others, carry a punctuation of the kinds of marine weather radio reports that I remember hearing on CBC Radio when I was a child. These are no more. The through-line of these highly specific and elemental collections of practical yet poetic words, a hypnotic repetitiveness built in, is both deeply unsettling and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>profoundly comforting. Perhaps the definition of a good poem.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Seán collaborates with musician and composer Neil Campbell, whose guitar opens the first track, and jazz singer Perri Alleyne-Hughes. Perri’s voice is first heard in “Fog Redux,” a distant chanting of a single word: “island,” cutting through a percussive through-line and a repeating sigh that must be a human voice — or is it? — as another forecast surfaces out of the soundscape. The complexity is so beautifully handled, seamlessly flowing, it feels utterly of a piece.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Words and weather. Words as weather. Words are weather.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I could write about each track because there are pleasures and hauntings in each one. I will close with two late tracks: “Sestina” and “Sestina (Part 2).” I choose “Sestina” because it is a poem inspired by Sable Island and Halifax, N.S., and the 1917 Halifax Explosion. It is one of the longest poems and has a tight, formal structure, with six end words repeating. It is filled with questions asked and not asked, the tensions are palpable, the compassion present. The reading is followed by a marvellous setting of the six end words of the poem, only the end words. Each word has its own note, each one sung softly, distinctly at first, then slowly the words, the notes form an ever-changing, Gregorian-chant-like song that is meditative and hypnotizing, intensifying, like watching a river flowing into the ocean: the same and never the same.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WzOhL-JBIdc/WSGPGhcbGVI/AAAAAAAACJM/4dOv0Twkcb8qE9XN8gY1310-6omO8Za1wCLcB/s1600/Sean%2BStreet%2B--%2BEstuary%2Blaunch%2B18%2BMay%2B2017%2B--%2BNeil%2BCampbell%2Band%2BPerri%2BAlleyne-Hughes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WzOhL-JBIdc/WSGPGhcbGVI/AAAAAAAACJM/4dOv0Twkcb8qE9XN8gY1310-6omO8Za1wCLcB/s320/Sean%2BStreet%2B--%2BEstuary%2Blaunch%2B18%2BMay%2B2017%2B--%2BNeil%2BCampbell%2Band%2BPerri%2BAlleyne-Hughes.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Neil Campbell and Perri Alleyne-Hughes performing</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">at the launch. Photo by Adrian Wharton.)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Each time a track faded to its own echoes, then into silence, I felt at peace. As “Pier Head” offers, “Departing lights shape darkness,” even as they disappear into the fog. The mind holds all sensation in memory.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This elegant collaboration has added something materially and spiritually good to this troubled world.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">On Thursday, 18 May, Seán and his colleagues launched Estuary with a multi-media performance in Liverpool. I wish I could have been there! Seán kindly sent me a few photos from what looks like a memorable event, which he has kindly said I can share. The photographs were taken by Adrian Wharton. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SQ6sCyLL3p8/WSGPU_zs9dI/AAAAAAAACJQ/szjV3aTHYHoRJl3Q7onvA1InTA0XfsB2gCLcB/s1600/Sean%2BStreet%2B--%2BEstuary%2Blaunch%2B18%2BMay%2B2017%2B--Rachel%2BSweeney.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SQ6sCyLL3p8/WSGPU_zs9dI/AAAAAAAACJQ/szjV3aTHYHoRJl3Q7onvA1InTA0XfsB2gCLcB/s320/Sean%2BStreet%2B--%2BEstuary%2Blaunch%2B18%2BMay%2B2017%2B--Rachel%2BSweeney.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Rachel Sweeney performing at the launch,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">with video projection. Photograph by Adrian Wharton.)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-34157861266972807542017-05-19T12:50:00.002-03:002017-05-19T16:26:57.470-03:00“Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop” Gallery: Artist Profiles<div style="text-align: justify;">Below is the profile for Christene Sandeson, one of the artists participating in the inaugural exhibiton of the "Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop" Gallery.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Christene Sandeson</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cVRUV3OVpr0/WR8T9vzn7FI/AAAAAAAACI4/BMVmBmxH5DMSBwn02gzVJWqlJ2cb6pVgACLcB/s1600/Headshot%2B--%2BChristene%2BSandeson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cVRUV3OVpr0/WR8T9vzn7FI/AAAAAAAACI4/BMVmBmxH5DMSBwn02gzVJWqlJ2cb6pVgACLcB/s320/Headshot%2B--%2BChristene%2BSandeson.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Of her art and artistic practice, Christene Sandeson writes: “In my journey through life, the emotion of various life challenges and events has inspired me. In my small circle, discussing those experiences over a cup of tea makes for closer friendships. The practise of sharing life journeys is our evidence that we are not alone.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Having painted in acrylic and carved in small-scale stone over 40 years, my subject matter has always reflected the emotions that are relevant and valuable to me. My images now contain fragments of land and animal imagery connected in a surreal way with the major design elements in an attempt to suggest an interconnectedness of our experiences.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">You<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>can see some of Christene’s art on her website: <a href="http://www.christenesandesonart.ca/">www.christenesandesonart.ca</a>. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Currently, Christene has several works display at the Marigold Centre in Truro, N.S. In July 2017, she will have a solo exhibition at the Fraser Cultural Centre in Tatamagouche, N.S.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-8892236461376338632017-05-17T07:57:00.001-03:002017-05-17T07:59:51.405-03:00“Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop” Gallery: Artist Profiles<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The next several posts will profile the artists who are part of the inaugural exhibition in the "Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop" art gallery connected to the permanent Elizabeth Bishop exhibit in St. James Church in Great Village, N.S. Elizabeth Bishop wrote: “Something needn’t be large to be good.” While the space for the gallery is relatively small, we are tremendously excited about the opportunity to show the work of some of Nova Scotia’s amazing visual artists, all of whom have a lively and expressive vision. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">As mentioned in previous posts, the inaugural exhibition focuses on artists from Colchester County. Perhaps the best known of these artists is Joy Laking, whose studio in Portaupique, N.S., (just up the road from Great Village), is a destination for many locals and vistors from all over the world. Joy was involved with the EBSNS for a number of years, in particular, she was a driving force behind the society’s EB100 Arts Festival in August 2011 and she initiated the banner project.</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">********************</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Joy Laking</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jX7Rd8dkLWM/WRwrV_y5gCI/AAAAAAAACIo/0W84mQaszDksq80JFZIGrFX_bs_s6oVpACLcB/s1600/Head%2Bshot%2B--%2BJoy%2BLaking.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jX7Rd8dkLWM/WRwrV_y5gCI/AAAAAAAACIo/0W84mQaszDksq80JFZIGrFX_bs_s6oVpACLcB/s1600/Head%2Bshot%2B--%2BJoy%2BLaking.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Joy Snihur Wyatt Laking was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, in 1950.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The daughter of an artist, she graduated from the University of Guelph with a major in Fine Art in 1972. Since that time, she has lived and painted professionally in Nova Scotia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>She has exhibited provincially, nationally and internationally including a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, which was subsequently toured for a year. She is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists, a founding member of PLANS (Professional Living Artists of Nova Scotia) and she has served two terms on the Board of Governors for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. In 2009, Joy received the Halifax Progress Club Woman of Excellence Award and in 2012, she received the Queens Diamond Jubilee Metal. She was the 2016 recipient of the Port Bickerton artist residency.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Joy has an extensive and colourful website: <a href="http://www.joylakinggallery.com/">http://www.joylakinggallery.com/</a> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-77623734467492673562017-05-14T08:14:00.002-03:002017-05-14T09:25:28.240-03:00"Elizabeth Bishop's Beginnings" exhibit -- exciting update<div style="text-align: justify;">On Saturday, 13 May 2017, the EBSNS permanent exhibit committee and a few board members met in St. James Church in Great Village, N.S., to begin the installation of the "Elizabeth Bishop's Beginnings" exhibit. This post is to share a few photos of the main event of this session: the arrival of the beautiful display cabinets hand-crafted by Great Village resident Garry Shears. Garry's work is second-to-none. Our Elizabeth Bishop treasures could have no more elegant containers. Thank you Garry for all your hard work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6HNXgXHe7nw/WRg5ZK2-n4I/AAAAAAAACHs/YWFs1yEoqvsjSJKVJGdnqID0Tdem5E31gCLcB/s1600/IMG_6984.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6HNXgXHe7nw/WRg5ZK2-n4I/AAAAAAAACHs/YWFs1yEoqvsjSJKVJGdnqID0Tdem5E31gCLcB/s320/IMG_6984.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Setting up the main cabinet)</span></b> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">We also want to thank Cameron and Duncan Gunn who carefully carried in the cabinets. The main one came in two sections. This piece is made out of beautiful wood, with glass on three sides, so each part is quite heavy. They are secured with locks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-soRROH2-Plw/WRg6MrWTO1I/AAAAAAAACH0/CIpafoY2wsE-fVoe8KgaC8TIObJQ22rSwCLcB/s1600/IMG_6988.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-soRROH2-Plw/WRg6MrWTO1I/AAAAAAAACH0/CIpafoY2wsE-fVoe8KgaC8TIObJQ22rSwCLcB/s320/IMG_6988.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<b>The finishing touches.</b>) </span></div>Elizabeth Bishop wrote, "no detail too small." And Garry is of this school too. Here he is securing the two pieces together for stability. He also made a horizontal cabinet for us and the two pieces together for the centre of the exhibit.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NF6D8mx6FHA/WRg7mi8R8rI/AAAAAAAACII/ybT2LfCFIoYO8Z3DWV1aYID-MrJ7K6vEwCLcB/s1600/IMG_6999.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NF6D8mx6FHA/WRg7mi8R8rI/AAAAAAAACII/ybT2LfCFIoYO8Z3DWV1aYID-MrJ7K6vEwCLcB/s320/IMG_6999.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(The two cabinets in place.)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We also installed the photographs and many of the treasures in the cabinets, but I will hold off sharing those photos until all this work is done and we are closer to the unveiling at the AGM. Artworks for the "Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop" gallery are coming in and will be installed later this month. We are pleased with our progress and will continue updates over the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lZrDbEuedVU/WRhA34IrM8I/AAAAAAAACIY/AKoIXRORaLY37aXgFlxImJyaXiwNo8KFwCLcB/s1600/IMG_7001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lZrDbEuedVU/WRhA34IrM8I/AAAAAAAACIY/AKoIXRORaLY37aXgFlxImJyaXiwNo8KFwCLcB/s320/IMG_7001.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Linda and Garry Shears putting the finishing touches to the cabinet installation.)</span></b></div></div><br />Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714240941786290434.post-32673856012632176862017-05-10T07:51:00.000-03:002017-05-10T07:52:11.129-03:00“Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop” Art Gallery: Background<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Visual art was everywhere in Bishop’s Great Village childhood. In the parlour of her grandparents’ home hung family portraits, chromographs of the British royal family, and seascapes painted by George W. Hutchinson, Bishop’s great-uncle (her grandmother’s brother). George Hutchinson was trained at the Royal Academy in London and worked for many years as an illustrator (he was the first professional illustrator to depict the meeting between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Holmes’ mystery <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Study in Scarlett</i>). Bishop grew up hearing stories about George’s and his younger brothers’ travels around the world. Two of her most famous ekphrastic poems were inspired by Hutchinson paintings: “Large Bad Picture” and “Poem.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2pz6XC73K3s/WRLuJBKI9AI/AAAAAAAACHE/UB42WjLowGASBaEzlE6PhqrlyH8TlztAQCLcB/s1600/large%2Bbad%2Bpicture%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2pz6XC73K3s/WRLuJBKI9AI/AAAAAAAACHE/UB42WjLowGASBaEzlE6PhqrlyH8TlztAQCLcB/s320/large%2Bbad%2Bpicture%2B3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(The “Large Bad Picture” painting. It is owned by</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">a Bulmer descendant who lives in the US.)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lpi5dP5ZaSY/WRLuiL1ZmvI/AAAAAAAACHI/W3ntPrPVdowTMkgSBYgj82Fj9ZjZKhsVACLcB/s1600/George%2BHutchinson%2Bpainting%2B--%2BPoem%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lpi5dP5ZaSY/WRLuiL1ZmvI/AAAAAAAACHI/W3ntPrPVdowTMkgSBYgj82Fj9ZjZKhsVACLcB/s320/George%2BHutchinson%2Bpainting%2B--%2BPoem%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(The "Poem" painting. It was sold in 2011&nbsp;</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">to one of Bishop's acquaintances.) </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In the next generation, Bishop’s Aunt Maude also became a painter. In the 1901 Nova Scotia Census, Maude declared herself a professional artist. She took lessons with her uncle and his colleague Bertram Knight Eaton in 1898, when they set up a studio and spent a year teaching. Maude won prizes at local exhibitions for her large landscapes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZLsMdHPtslg/WRLvWkF3prI/AAAAAAAACHQ/XewJ108qqRIdJKss1adsr0iZ2PlGtZ4BwCLcB/s1600/Painting%2Bclass%2Bin%2BGV%2B1890s.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZLsMdHPtslg/WRLvWkF3prI/AAAAAAAACHQ/XewJ108qqRIdJKss1adsr0iZ2PlGtZ4BwCLcB/s320/Painting%2Bclass%2Bin%2BGV%2B1890s.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Painting class, Great Village. They are seated on the bank of the</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Great Village River. Bertram Knight Easton on far right.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Maude is seated on the far left.)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Maude Bulmer Shepherdson was the aunt who raised Bishop in the late 1910s and through the 1920s, in her home in Revere, Massachusetts. Bishop had vivid memories of going to the art galleries in nearby Boston with her aunt, who painted right to the end of her life.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">While not a professional visual artist, Bishop enjoyed painting. She painted enough images for there to have been several posthumous exhibits of her work, including one in 1997 in Worcester, MA, coinciding with a Bishop conference. Exhibits have happened in Key West, Florida, and North Haven, Maine. A major exhibit took place at the Tybor de Nagy Gallery in New York City late in 2011. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oedkUp4dSQE/WRLvx1pXR5I/AAAAAAAACHU/o0AoDLT9-h8CQyduaquorj_b12Uw82nhwCLcB/s1600/EB%2Bpainting%2B--%2BNova%2BScotia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oedkUp4dSQE/WRLvx1pXR5I/AAAAAAAACHU/o0AoDLT9-h8CQyduaquorj_b12Uw82nhwCLcB/s320/EB%2Bpainting%2B--%2BNova%2BScotia.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(This appears to be Bishop’s only painting of Nova Scotia.&nbsp;</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">It is owned by Frani Blough Muser.)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Today, Bishop’s life and work have inspired visual artists around the world, not least of whom are a number of Nova Scotians. Over the years, the EBSNS has worked with the children of the Great Village School to create and exhibit artwork inspired by Bishop’s poems. One of the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary legacy projects was a competition among young people in the Great Village area to create an image for a permanent banner to hang in the village each summer. April Sharpe’s striking image of St. James Church was chosen. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s5c6JVGkT6Y/WRLwSnkqcwI/AAAAAAAACHc/neAEnSmGo6UgoRhAF-eydBNKu8Z-2ZxfQCLcB/s1600/Church%2Bsteeple%2Band%2Bbanner%2B--%2Bhigh%2Bres%2Bimage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s5c6JVGkT6Y/WRLwSnkqcwI/AAAAAAAACHc/neAEnSmGo6UgoRhAF-eydBNKu8Z-2ZxfQCLcB/s320/Church%2Bsteeple%2Band%2Bbanner%2B--%2Bhigh%2Bres%2Bimage.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">With all this visual art in the picture, so to speak, it was logical for the Exhibit Committee to include a small art gallery with the exhibit project, which we are calling “Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;">The next series of posts will profile the various artists who will participate in the inaugural exhibition in the gallery.</span>Sandra Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281125721509189334noreply@blogger.com0